Crystal River current., 1887-03-05
LATE TELEGRAPH NEWS.
Secretary Manning has resigned.

Pope Leo has offered to act as medi-
ator in the existing European troubles.
President Cleveland has vetoed the
bill granting aid to the Texas sufferers.
A man is on exhibition in London
who is eigh feet and nine inches high.
A heavy shock of earthquake was
felt in Frederickstown, Missouri, last week.
There were S3 votes in the House
in favor of passing the Texas Drouth bill
over the Presidents veto.
The Governor of Kansas has ap-
ferring suffrage on women.
Sullivan says his arm will be well by
the 10th of next month and he will then go
Immediately upon the road.
The season in Laborador has been a
very severe one and the seal fisheries have
been almost complete failure.
Very heavy rains have been falling
at Los Angeles and many bridges have been
carried away and other damage done.
Lieutenant Greeley has been nomi-
mated by the President to be Chief Signal
Officer with the rank of Brigadier-General.
The River and Harbor bill as it
passed the Senate appropriates $4,000 for
the Improvement of the mouth of the Co.
lumbia river.
Some "Christian Science" ladies of
Minneapolis made an unsuccessful attempt
to bring back to life girl who had been
dead three weeks.
Ayoung man travelling on the PAM
handle railroad had nightmare and tried
to jump headfirst through the window. He
was pulled back by the porter.
Bishop Curtis, of the Catholic Church,
has forbidden the raising of money for re-
ligiOus purposes by picnics, fairs, eXcur-
sions or entertainments of any kind within
his diot ese without his consent.
The Governments receipts so far
this month amount an average of over
1000, 900 q day. The expenditures have
been unusually heavy, the pension pay
ments amounting to about $40. 100000.
The people of Washington Territory
have petitioned the General Government to
reimburse them for outlays in settling the
Chinese riots at Seattle, and the Secretary
of the Interior has recommended payment
Lucius B. Fairchild, Commander-in-
Chief of the &. A. r., has issued a circu-
lar requesting comrades and &. A. II. Posts
to send to their respective Congressman
their opinions concerning the Presidents
veto OF the Department Pension bill.
Negotiations are said to be in pro-
gress for the consolidation of the Mexican
National of Mexico the Southern Pacific
Coast NarrowGauge of California. the Dem
yer ~ Rio Grande of Utah and Colorado
and Che Santa Fe & Northern system of
New Mexico.
Boston Corbett. the slayer of Booth,
created a sensation in the Kansas Legisla.
ture few days ago. He appeared in the
lower house with two revolvers and car
fridge belt strapped around his body AMI
ammo unced his intention of killing Speaker
Smith. Not finding him he ordered the
House to adjourn and was promptly
Obeyed. He was afterwards arrested and
will probably be placed in the insane asy-
lum.
The Berlin Post says that. in reply to
the inquiry by Deputy Eyrern in the Lond-
tag, as to whether war was probable, Bis
marck said: t'You know quite as much as
l do. We live in a state of peace, but look
at the French preparations in building bar
racks, at the position of General Boulanger
and the constant Outcry of the French
Patriot League during sixteen years, and
then consider what we have to fear from
France"
A dispatch from Washington to the
Denver Republican says: "rhe politicians
are all agog over the successorship to Sec
retary Manning, and the excitement is in
tensitied by the presence here of so many
leading Democrats from New York, who
are generally understood to entertain the
fear that the President is likely to confer
the Treasury portfolio upon a person from
some other State. 1t is now accepted on all
sides that Assistant Secretary Fairchild
will not be promoted.
Owing to the snow-blockade the
Utah and Northern Anaconda copper
works and mine at Butte, were compelled
to shut down for want of fuel. 1t is said
that the works will remain closed until
May. The Parrot Copper Company has
closed six furnaces. Clark's smelter is
rnnning very low. All of this is on ac-
count of the snOw-blockades along the
route. In one place, a mile long, the snow
is from thirty to forty feet deep. Over
:, 600 men are out of employment, and the
copper production of the camp Is almost
stopped.
A strike at the junction Iron works,
Mengo, Ohio, threatens to cause serious
trouble between the Knights of Labor and
the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers. The strikers are members
ofboth organizations, and conflict of arl-
thOrity has arisen between the members of